aedas uk green book

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Launched in April 2008, the Aedas Green Book is our reference guide to sustainable practice and a summary of our goals and strategies to achieve them. Developed by Aedas R&D, it is being adopted by the practice’s 11 offices throughout the UK. The Aedas Green Book provides a showcase for Aedas projects, current research and practice procedures.

The Green Book is an evolving handbook that Aedas employees have access to at all times through the practice’s knowledge management intranet. Summarising our industry-recognised strategy, this publication is an annual snapshot of our progress and the comprehensive service and research resources we offer.

Aedas Green Book

Aedas’ commitment to address environmental, social and economic challenges through design excellence is central to our practice ethos.

In the age of climate change, minimising the environmental impact of our projects is a shared imperative for clients and design teams. At Aedas we set sustainability targets for every project and offer solutions through innovative research and practice that deliver business advantages for our clients.

Our evidence-based approach reflects our commitment to create design solutions that make a measurable contribution to the built environment and exceed legislative requirements wherever possible.

Statement from Chairman & Board

Poverty AlleviationWealth Distribution

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Climate ChangeResource Preservation

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Aedas has created a number of publications to support our design process. Whilst the Green Book summarises practice policy and actions, the Aedas online Green Tool supports architects’ workflow, coordination with consultants and the sharing of project experience across design teams.

Headline Green Tool topics are complemented by Design Guides that assist designers in communicating sustainability and incorporating passive and active systems for sustainable design. They also provide guidance on specifying sustainable materials, construction and compliance with legislation and standards. Case studies illustrate these principles applied in practice.

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Waveney Campus will be the first significant development within the urban regeneration of Lowestoft, Suffolk and will act as a catalyst for future development. The £42m campus project will provide approximately 15,500 square metres of accommodation comprising offices, laboratories and an aquarium supported by an energy centre and on-site stores.

Sustainability targets are achieved through the following:

y Twenty-five percent improvement on Part L CO2 target emissions

y North-south orientation to optimise louver design and heat gains

y Exposed concrete frame with high thermal mass adds to thermal comfort

y Naturally ventilated offices and laboratory write-up areas by means of cross ventilation or thermal chimneys

y Biomass boiler y Low temperature hot water being supplied from solar

heating panels y B rated materials or above as per ‘The Green Guide to

Specification’ y Reuse of concrete from demolition as piling mat or hard

core for the car parks

Waveney Campus

Client Waveney Council, CEFAS, Suffolk Council

Sector Civic - Community - Marine Research

Gross Floor Area 15,500 sq m

Project Value £52.7m

Renewable Energy Biomass boiler & solar water heaters

Carbon Emissions Estimate - 45kg CO2 /sq m/year

Sustainability Target BREEAM excellent, <45kg CO2 / sq m/year,<30m3 potable water / person/year

Completion Date 2010

Claffey House is a zero-carbon residential scheme built on an environmentally sensitive site in Worcestershire.


y Passive design potential of the site has been maximised by setting the building into the hill to reduce the building envelope, hence heat losses. As the south elevation is extensively glazed, the eaves of the building are extended to provide shading and optimise heat gains. The building’s high thermal mass regulates temperature through the day and night and cross ventilation prevents over heating

y Energy losses through glazing and walls are reduced by high performance triple glazed windows and super-insulated walls

y All materials have been specified taking into account their ‘Green Guide to Specification’ rating, using local materials wherever possible

y Ground source heat pumps, powered by the PV array provide primary heating and hot water source

y On-site photovoltaic array generates net surplus energy y A+ rated appliances reduce the requirement for energy, and

high efficiency lighting has been specified throughout y Re-use of grey water in toilets and washing machines cuts

water consumption, whilst composting water returns water back to local water table

Client Mr & Mrs Claffey

Sector Residential - Private

Gross Floor Area 340 sq m

Project Value £450,000

Renewable Energy Rooftop photovoltaic array

Low Carbon Technologies Ground source heat pump

Carbon Emissions Estimate -3.42kg CO2 /sq m/year

Sustainability Target Zero Carbon, CfSH 6* Rating, Passive House Standard, BREEAM Excellent

Completion Date Spring 2009

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8.2 Application Site

The sinuous line of the new drive joins the existing drive just behind the stables and is set away from the Byre to allow a generous landscape buffer between the new house and the listed group.

The sheds are demolished and the existing linear contours are reshaped to give a more natural shape to the new close-grazed pasture.

Just below the house, these restored contours form a berm sheltering the garden level entrance beyond and allowing the upper level to ‘fl oat’ above.

This use of contours allows the garden level to be set down into the landscape lessening the impact of the building’s height and volume.

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Holland Park School, due for completion in 2012, is a landmark education scheme within the Kensington conservation area adjacent to Holland Park in London. It will provide accommodation for 1,500 students aged between 11 and 18, and over 100 staff. The site benefits from excellent public transport links and will serve as a social and educational hub. Extended operating hours will enable the Kensington Community College to increase its use of the school’s enhanced sports and other facilities, whilst the addition of the new 25m pool will promote health and fitness in the local community.


y The building’s orientation, massing and iconic louvres prevent excessive heat gains into classrooms and the atrium, whilst admitting adequate day light

y The full length atrium admits light deep into the building’s plan, reducing the need for artificial lighting, and facilitating cross ventilation and a heat stack effect

y High thermal mass and BMS controlled night purge ventilation reduces the need for cooling

y Low carbon technologies such as ground source heating and cooling, and a CHP boiler and solar-water heaters lower the building’s overall energy use

y Sub-metering strategy allows the building’s energy use to be monitored to enable efficient control of heating and cooling

Client Kensington & Chelsea

Sector Education - Secondary School


Project Value £40m

Renewable Energy PV roof panels, solar water heaters

Low Carbon Technologies Ground source heat pumps and CHP boiler

Carbon Emissions 33.3kg CO2 /sq m/year

Sustainability Target BREEAM Very Good / Excellent voluntary

Completion Date Summer 2012

Holland Park School

This mixed-use development will be the first such landmark building built in Karachi Port for the city’s new waterfront business district. The scheme is to act as catalyst for a major regeneration initiative and incorporates a carefully considered transport, residential, civic and retail programme.

Parametric computer models that integrate climatic and other environmental drivers into the form-finding of the building were shared with the design team from the start of the project. This collaborative effort between Mott MacDonald and Aedas not only helped inform the development of key building elements but made the coordination and fine-tuning of the complex design feasible.


y The shading system, glazing and orientation reduce the energy use of the project by up to 80 percent at peak times

y Dynamic thermal analysis models demonstrate significantly lower energy use than many new developments in the same climate zone

y Cladding design incorporates good thermal insulation and G values while glazing finish complements the building form and orientation

y The twisting curved form deflects down-winds away from pedestrian areas at ground level

Client Karachi Port Trust

Sector Special Buildings - Commercial


Project Value £210m

Carbon Emissions 57.8kg CO2 /sq m/year

Kolachi Enclave Development

Aedas was appointed to design the new Abu Dhabi Investment Council headquarters following an invited international competition. The 25-storey twin office towers in the United Arab Emirates will each accommodate between 1,000 and 1,100 employees. The design concept is both culturally and environmentally appropriate and complies with the aspirations of the recently published 2030 Abu Dhabi Development Plan.

The south facing roofs of each tower incorporate photo-voltaic cells, generating approximately five percent of the total required energy from renewable energy sources.

The cocoon-like buildings are based on a pre-rationalised geometric form, fine-tuned via parametric design tools to achieve optimal wall to floor area ratio. A solar-responsive dynamic shading screen further decreases solar gain. This ‘Mashrabiya’ acts as a secondary skin that mediates daylight and reduces glare. The system is driven by renewable energy derived from the photo voltaic panels. Project Engineers, Arup, estimate that the Mashrabiya has the potential to reduce the cooling load by over 20 percent, with commensurate savings on energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Client Abu Dhabi Investment Council

Sector Offices


Project Value £192m

Renewable Energy Photovoltaic roof panels

Sustainability Target LEED Silver

Completion Date 2012

Abu Dhabi Investment Council HQ

Photovoltaics slope southward to maximise solar gain like a leaf

Shading effects similar to forms of nature

Water feature in path of prevailing wind to maximise evaporation cooling

Structural system inspired by the mechanics of natural forms

Reinterpretation of traditional Islamic device creates a new vernacular

Sculpting of Mashrabiya around entrance reflects the sculpting of the Mukarnas

Hexagonal geometry from traditional

Islamic architecture

Sky Gardens reflect traditional courtyard treatment

Sky Garden located in area of maximum exposure to reduce heat gain

Air circulation around Sky Garden provides natural cooling effect

Translucent and crystalline Mashrabiya

Renewable energy provided by roof mounted photovoltaic cells

Aedas UK is collaborating with Aedas Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai on the design of 43 metro stations and related depot buildings in Dubai. Public transportation project of this scale constitutes a formidable foundation for sustained urban growth in one of the Middle East’s fastest growing cities.

The Client’s brief called for distinctive, landmark designs. The iconic family of stations, developed with computational design input from Aedas R&D, are composed from conic shells and feature sweeping cantilevers that soar to over 30 metres.

The geometric 3D design not only helped create an iconic form but allowed considerable savings of time and material through streamlined cross-disciplinary coordination leading to substantial reductions in cost and embodied energy.

Dubai Metro is at the forefront of the Road and Transport Authority’s (RTA) drive to create an integrated sustainable public transport network throughout Dubai. Construction work is ongoing for completion of Phase One in 2009.

Dubai Metro

Client Government of Dubai RTA

Sector Transport

Project Value £1.65b

Completion Date Phase 1 2009

Computational Planning for Sustainable Communities is a Knowledge Transfer project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council through UrbanBuzz.

Led by Aedas R&D in collaboration with the University of East London and the planning departments at the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham, this project applies computational design techniques to evaluate the placemaking aspects of masterplans including accessibility and pedestrian circulation network optimisation, density and mix of uses.

The team developed a set of computational applications to create an interactive 3D workflow and seamless digital chain from GIS data to massing models. Applied at various scales, these applications allow the swift generation or assessment of urban networks and massing that brings efficiencies to planning cycles and facilitates the comparison of multiple masterplanning scenarios.

Computational Masterplanning

Client L. B. of Tower Hamlets and Newham

Sector Masterplan

Completion Date 2008 October

Inspired by Aedas’ in-house carbon-management scheme, the CarbonBuzz initiative will invite UK designers and engineers to manage and share forecast and in-use energy data of their projects anonymously through an online platform. The project will create a sector by sector monitor of UK buildings’ energy use and provide a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)-recognised framework for ‘Carbon-Conscious’ practice. This cross-disciplinary effort is funded by UrbanBuzz is due to be launched in November 2008.

Participating practices will be afforded easy access to Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers’ (CIBSE) CO2 emission benchmarks during design and will be able to compare results with actual energy consumption figures once a building is in use. The project aims to set the framework for future benchmarking and provide a means to reduce the discrepancy between design and operational energy consumption, a key concern for the industry. For further information visit: www.urbanbuzz.org.

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Aedas R&D develops design methods through computational and parametric tools that help quantify, visualise and manipulate spatial, environmental and financial factors of a design.

We use 4D simulation models that invite creative input and form the basis of project coordination through multiple representations of a design. This way of working fosters the dialogue on sustainability with clients and consultants from the inception of a project.

Our involvement in all stages of structural, mechanical, spatial and quantitative coordination allows for inspired architectural solutions that meet implicit and explicit performance criteria.

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The construction, maintenance and use of buildings has a significant impact on climate change and ecosystem damage. Recent figures indicate that the sector is the most frequent polluter, generates over 70 million tons of waste annually, and is responsible for about 10 percent of the UK’s total CO2 emissions with a further 50 percent arising from building use.

Added to this the industry mainly draws materials directly from natural resources, uses energy intensive processes, and lacks interest in its product’s performance in use.

As one of the world’s leading practices, Aedas invests in research and leads cross-disciplinary initiatives on understanding and reducing building energy use, the lifecycle impact of building products, their packaging and transport to site, as well as end-of-life reusability.

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As sustainability issues gain public and corporate awareness and climate change moves higher on the global agenda pressure is mounting on the construction industry to deliver designs that will spearhead the transition to a low-carbon economy.

At Aedas, we believe that the continual assessment of our designs ‘in use’ is key to the development of solutions that meet this challenge. To this end we propose free post occupancy evaluation to all our clients.

In recognition of the need for industry-wide action, Aedas leads a campaign amongst architects and services engineers to track our buildings’ performance and share knowledge gained from such monitoring through an online platform - CarbonBuzz.

Low Carbon Design

UK Fossil Fuel Reduction Requirementsall building types London +

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EPC 4 Bed + Residential DEC Public buildings over 1000 sq m EPC for non-dwellings larger than 500 sq m sold or rented EPC All property when sold or leased

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UK Fossil Fuel Reduction Requirementsall building types London + Regions

Since 2006 Aedas has been conducting an annual carbon audit of our projects and operations with the aim of setting practice-wide carbon emissions targets. Whilst it is essential to continue reducing our operational energy and resource consumption we have concluded that the CO2 emissions arising from our business operations are dwarfed by the cumulative impact of our projects.

Our aspiration to reduce the CO2 emissions of our projects by 50 percent by 2011 is the first step towards meeting future zero-carbon targets and sets in motion the following initiatives:

y Online tracking of project performance during design and ‘in-use’

y Practice-wide network of environmental design specialists y Development of The Aedas Green Tool y In-house design guides linked to The Green Tool y Zero-carbon pilots from each UK region by 2011

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Exchange of sustainable design knowledge is vital for the emergence of new solutions to meet current ecological imperatives.

At Aedas a network of regional sustainability coordinators provide specialist input to design coordination and cultivate environmental design excellence through the Aedas’ Green Tool and regular Design Reviews. Directors in each regional office lead the implementation of the practice policy whilst project teams appoint a project ‘Sustainability Champion’ who applies the Green Tool at every design stage. The Head of the Sustainability Group reports quarterly to the Board of Directors and Shareholders on progress against practice targets.

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Research into the performance of buildings in use, including the influence of spatial and environmental factors on productivity in the workplace, is leading to growing client demand for outstanding building performance. With sustainability becoming an integral component of corporate social responsibility policies, and market pressures driving innovation in green technologies, the business case for sustainable design has never been more compelling.

Together with our clients we maximise the sustainability potential of every project and set targets against sector benchmarks which take account of a development type, location and brief. Aedas recommends projects to improve on CIBSE’s 2008 benchmarks to aim for a minimum voluntary Display Energy Certificate rating of B and a BREEAM ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’ rating. We believe that providing post-occupancy evaluations are integral to achieving sustainability aspirations and aim to include this in our scope of services.

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The Green Tool is a practice sustainability Q&A and database that allows people to share knowledge and experience on sustainable design. Through this singular online platform, architects are able to inform, track and analyse their designs through the RIBA work stages in comparison with other Aedas projects.

The Green Tool effectively enables vital cross-disciplinary collaboration by informing architects of necessary actions to be taken at key milestones.

Project Champions apply the Green Tool to ensure all key sustainability criteria is considered and a programme is developed to integrate solutions into the design. This not only allows for ease of reporting, but supports communication with clients and design teams in achieving project targets. Expert advice is provided by the Sustainability Coordinator.

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Efficient Services Design

Renewable Energy

Waste, Water & Biodiversity

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Legislation & Design Standards

Aedas’ Design Guides provide technical guidance on sustainable design issues and assist design teams to minimise the environmental impact of our projects. Design Guide titles correspond to key sections within the Green Tool Q&A, providing an easy reference for project teams.

The guides address sustainable design issues from masterplanning through to specification. The ability of a project to promote visual and social diversity is considered as is its transport and infrastructural context. There is also a drive to maximise passive building features, optimise services design and replace conventional energy sources with renewable technologies.

The conservation of natural resources and the reduction of waste and pollution is another key concern, as is the quality of internal and external environments.

Design Guides

1. Communicating Sustainability

3. Masterplanning & Construction Methods

5. Materials & Construction Methods

7. Renewables

9. Refurbishments

2. Understanding Carbon & Energy Consumption in Buildings

4. Passive Design

6. Efficient Services Design / Low- Carbon System

8. Waste, Water & Biodiversity

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As architects, our awareness of the environmental impact of buildings during construction, use, maintenance and disposal is central to our ambitions as a socially and environmentally responsible practice. Operating in a sustainable manner demonstrates this commitment.

Our target for 2011 is to reduce operational emissions by 25 percent, through office energy savings, efficiencies in modes of travel and increased virtual communication. Office managers throughout the UK track Aedas’ emissions. Targets for reducing consumption of energy and water and increasing waste streams diverted away from landfill are to be included within the organisations’ Environmental Management System. The practice EMS is being developed to comply with the requirements of the International Standard BS EN ISO 14001: 2004.

Instead of joining an offsetting scheme, we invest the value of all CO2 emissions in the implementation of our policy.

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A-rated appliances

Recycled paper Public transport Avoid domestic flights

Local offices in global locations

Screen sharing

Video conferencing ‘Cycle2Work’ scheme

Cycle storage & shower facilities in offices

Renewables in the home

Employees forum - personal emissions

Introducing the new NAPM Recycled Logo

Paper and board sought to be accorded the NAPM Recycled Paper Mark must be manufactured from a minimum of 50%, 75% genuine recovered fibre, no part of which should contain mill produced waste.

Logos are available in black and white and reversed out options, and a minimum size of 15mm width is required.

There are no official guidelines as to its use in terms of position or colour.

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Printed by Taylor Bloxham Ltd who is ISO14001:2004, FSC and PEFC certified, using vegetable based inks

An Aedas R&D publication

Created by Judit Kimpian with contributions from:

Aedas Board of Directors and Shareholders Aedas Management ServicesAedas MarketingLydia DurkinXCO2

Special thanks to:

Boran AgostonDan BarnesJo BatemanWade BaylisEleanor DaviesChristian DerixBen DohertyYasser El GabryMalcolm EllisJames Handley Amy HeydenrychBrian JohnsonAbdulmajid KaranouhJosh MasonPeter ObornAlan RobertsonPeter RunacresLyndal StuartSimon SummersJulie TennantRobert TroupMike WaltersSarah WilliamsMartin Wright

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